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A useful fact.

Jane Austen could not make Mr. Darcy duke because authors were not allowed to use the actual English nobility in their works fiction. That is why in the gossip columns they would say the D*** of M was with…
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This plot started with pride and prejudice, and an error in describing that unparalleled work of Regency fiction. And now the main characters in this disjointed and very unsatisfactory narrative are comparing themselves to Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth. Sacrilege. But for a fifth grader? In this period of time they are mature enough to read the original.

Finally we get the simplistic Gouey ending after the stiff cliffhanger when she leaves. On this page he comes back. And I am glad he came back because I cannot take too much more of this

He whipped his clothes off quickly, and she was so overcome with her pleasure, she could barely take in his rapid movements.

And the reader is O so lucky that it was quickly, and we didn’t have to suffer long

Chapter 17
Standing before the crackling fire, she abandoned reason and gave away the passion.

Need I say more? Fifth grade

Oh, if only she could be a strong as these flowers. What would she dare?

That’s a sample

The more I read the lower the grade level. We have gone from high school, to middle school, to grade school. Now it is a sixth grade level. Maybe not even that. Sentence structure nonexistent. Fatuous, a narrative of fatuity

The book club is formed. They shake hands on it. Boring boring boring

The Duke said shall we form a book club?

That has to be a sincerely stupid line even though the author modifies it with the Duke teasing her, can you imagine a Duke saying that?

The dialogue between them sounds like conversations of a boy and a girl in high school looking to seduce one another